Thursday, July 19, 2018

Over 50 corpses of the people killed in the US airstrikes and buried under the debris of a building in Raqqa were discovered on Thursday one day after several mass graves were found in the ruins of the province.

Friday, November 11, 2016

Terrorists from the so-called Islamic State have executed scores more people around Mosul this week and are reportedly stockpiling ammonia and sulphur in civilian areas, possibly for use as chemical weapons, the UN has said.

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Kurdish authorities want the International Criminal Court (ICC) to examine 25 mass graves in northern Iraq containing the bodies of Yazidis allegedly executed by the Islamic State (IS) militant group, a media report said on Thursday.

Friday, December 5, 2014

There is evidence Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s decrees to
blockade Ukraine's east are foreign-engineered, Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov told a news conference on Friday.“We still have the hope that goodwill will prevail. I would not like
to suspect anyone. But there is evidence that such an aggressive
behaviour against the territories in question (Ukraine’s east) is being
induced from abroad,” Lavrov said.

Monday, October 20, 2014

A delegation dispatched by Amnesty International to the area of the
east Ukrainian city of Donetsk, where the forces loyal to the Kiev
government have been conducting a military operation since mid-April,
has found strong evidence of extra-judicial executions of “four men
buried into graves near the village of Komunar,” the organization said
in a report on Monday.

The evidence strongly implicates that Kiev-controlled forces committed these crimes, it said.

Friday, October 3, 2014

STRASBOURG, October 3. The Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) should supervise a probe of reports about
mass graves found near the Ukrainian troubled city of Donetsk, President
of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Anne Brasseur
said on Friday.On Friday, a UN human rights report is expected to address the issue
of mass burial sites near Donetsk. This will be observers' regular
report on the human rights situation in Ukraine.

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Moscow will seek truth and punishment for those guilty in killings of people, whose bodies were found in common graves near the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday.

Moscow hopes that Western capitals will not keep silent about blatant
facts of common graves near Donetsk, Lavrov added. “We hope that
Western countries will not silence these facts, as they (these facts)are
flagrant,” Lavrov said. Russia hopes that Western media will be
unbiased in covering the current events in Ukraine.

Monday, September 29, 2014

PACE will make an official statement on the the mass grave of civilians near Donetsk only after the official results of the investigation are made public, PACE President Anne Brasseur said Monday.

"As regards to Donetsk, I do not wish to make any statements about this at this moment," Brasseur said.

"We are waiting for the outcome of the investigation that is taking place, because with such shaking information, it is very important that one has good knowledge of all the facts before one makes any statement," Brasseur said .

Friday, September 26, 2014

Moscow will strongly demand an open and independent investigation into the case of mass graves, recently discovered in eastern Ukraine's conflict-torn Donetsk Region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday.

"The last [OSCE] report which was presented in Vienna, confirmed that they were civilians, they were shot at point-blank range, and they could have been abused prior to it. We are very concerned by all this. We cannot accuse anyone as there are no results of the investigation yet, but strongly demand an investigation, an open and independent one," Lavrov told reporters at the UN.

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Russia will press for a probe into the fact of discovery of mass
graves near Donetsk at international platforms such as the Council of
Europe, PACE and OSCE, Aleksey Pushkov, head of the State Duma committee
on international affairs, told ITAR-TASS.

"Russia must and will raise the matter in international organizations
the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, pointing out that
people who are directly responsible for these war crimes and crimes
against humanity are now in power in Kiev," the parliamentarian said.
Since Kiev, he said, "is incapable of carrying out any investigation
whatsoever, this must be the subject of a very serious examination
within the framework of those organizations".